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Officials are having a difficult time with their communications because the cell service issue. so all of that is contributing to really what we know and what we dont know at this point. thats why its so important to do things like getting brooke up in the chopper so we can get a better sense of what is waiting when people can get in. >> chad myers, you make the point about what looks like tornado-like damage. chad myers said in terms of wind strength, it was like a 30-minute-long tornado. torna...

Sort of wind strength, why the storm surge here is going to bring the wave action possibly up to 9, even 12 feet up over the sand dunes potentially and then inland here. one of the things i found interesting, on a good day this beach is about 100 feet wide. its already been cut down to about 50 feet wide, and understand that high tide isnt until 9:00 tonight, so all of this is in anticipation of the arrival of hurricane michael. unfortunately, there were mandatory evacuations, but everybody did ...

Its about 45 minutes after the hour. four raging wildfires consuming southern california. thousands forced to evacuate. the thomas fire in ventura burning 90,000 acres. and the flames have now reached los angeles, americas second biggest city. the director of the fire protection giving a dire forecast saying the color coded system has reached the top level of purple for wind strength. adding weve never used purple before. >> all of l.a. county under an extreme fire danger warning. the 405 freewa...

Whether it will hit the u.s. mainland. what do we know, allison. >> well, we just dpot the brand-new update in at the top of the hour and it has actually increased a little bit in wind strength. winds right now 125-mile-per-hour. that is only five-mile-per-hour off from a category 4 storm. theyre gusting upwards of 150 miles per hour. now, the track over the next couple of days will continue to take it out over the open atlantic towards the united states. the ultimate question is how close does ...

Really for several days right now. one of the things that has concerned me is that maybe people on the west have been a little complacent. whats your take on that? what have you seen? >> as weve driven north weve seen a lot of people out and about. some people even going about their normal daily routines and thats the big concern here is that people might not have gotten enough of the urgency that the state officials have been trying to communicate because so much of that effort was directed tow...

Over the water. and move over really warm water. there seemed that we do expect to see increases. if it goes further towards the west. it can have more times throughout the water. tonight into hurricane range. in by tomorrow morning key west hundred 15. miami 79. you get the idea. 10:00 a.m. sunday morning. hurricane force winds. and then by tomorrow evening we have hurricane force winds and hundred 22 miles per hour. over 12 hours that youve got winds here in that category two or three wind str...

Were saying it is already because its been spinning with the wind strength of 185 miles an hour for longer than any storm in recorded history, what does that alone tell you, that it has been able to sustain that strength? >> well, its absolutely unprecedented. not only is it the strongest hurricane to ever be recorded in the atlantic ocean, it is sustaining it for an incredibly long period of time and it will pile up that water for a long period of time. hurricane harvey intensefied at the last ...

That makes a difference. its the second most powerful storm weve ever seen in the atlantic basis. the strongest winds are 190 miles an hour. so were knocking on the door. this is a powerful storm. we see the watches and warnings there. the lesser antilles stretching to puerto rico. well continue to track this as it moves further and further to the north. as it runs over the islands, it will lose the wind strength. it will run over land and weaken it slightly. so you see it dropping from a catego...

To dump a lot more rain over houston, and louisiana. cnn meteorologist chad myers has the latest rainfall totals, and forecast. not the news they wanted on the 12-year anniversary of katrina that more rain could be making its way to the gulf. >> more rain will, not maybe, absolute chris. this is just another devastating part of this story. there is the center of harvey right now, moving into the gulf of mexico. it will eventually get up here somewhere around beaumont port arthur. what is that go...

Taking in the waez rigves right they have to get out soon if theyre going to make it to a shelter. shelters are key to governor scotts plan. well be bringing you the latest from this community, one of the most vulnerable with this category 4 storm coming up. >> thank you so very much. really really useful information for all the people viewing and listening as well. back with us now, nbc news meteorologist raphael miranda. tell us the latest on the storm track, the storm surge, the wind strength...